# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1166277615 0
# Node ID 353ff7e82e900d96661da444dbbaf678ffdc354b
# Parent  56797b379afdf5cf53ddc69ebde5853fbe68f025
Document problems with rebasing Cygwin DLLs.

diff -r 56797b379afd -r 353ff7e82e90 etc/PROBLEMS
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Sat Dec 16 12:46:45 2006 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Sat Dec 16 14:00:15 2006 +0000
@@ -2115,6 +2115,34 @@
 more permanent work around is to change it to another key combination,
 or disable it in the keyboard control panel.
 
+** Cygwin build of Emacs hangs after rebasing Cygwin DLLs
+
+Usually, on Cygwin, one needs to rebase the DLLs if an application
+aborts with a message like this:
+
+  C:\cygwin\bin\python.exe: *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygssl.dll to
+  same address as parent(0xDF0000) != 0xE00000
+
+However, since Cygwin DLL 1.5.17 was released, after such rebasing,
+Emacs hangs.
+
+This was reported to happen for Emacs 21.2 and also for the pretest of
+Emacs 22.1 on Cygwin.
+
+To work around this, build Emacs like this:
+
+  LDFLAGS='-Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base' ./configure
+  make LD='$(CC)'
+  make LD='$(CC)' install
+
+This produces an Emacs binary that is independent of rebasing.
+
+Note that you _must_ use LD='$(CC)' in the last two commands above, to
+prevent GCC from passing the "--image-base 0x20000000" option to the
+linker, which is what it does by default.  That option produces an
+Emacs binary with the base address 0x20000000, which will cause Emacs
+to hang after Cygwin DLLs are rebased.
+
 ** Interrupting Cygwin port of Bash from Emacs doesn't work.
 
 Cygwin 1.x builds of the ported Bash cannot be interrupted from the